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Have you ever wanted to drive across the 360 miles of desert highway that connects Tucson to Las Vegas, but just can’t afford the...

Xmas is traditionally a time for some cracking television (and a few other things, of course) and if you’re going to be away over...

Amazon.co.uk is running a week of ‘Black Friday’ deals for the second year running this week, from 21 to 25 November. In the US,...

If the prospect of poking around under the bonnet of your car to investigate a mechanical fault is something you’d much rather leave to...

Unexpectedly large mobile phone bills are usually associated with using a smartphone for ‘roaming’ internet access when abroad, but it’s also a problem for...

Keeping tyres in tip-top condition may get a little easier in the next few years, thanks to technology invented by Goodyear that lets them...

After-market waterproofing treatments can be a hit and miss, but this silicon-based sprayable coating from Ross Nanotechnology looks set to change all that. It’s called...

Smartphones and water don’t mix, and thanks to moisture sensors tucked inside the case, manufacturers can tell when a ‘broken’ handset is actually the...

The Life! Death! Top Tips! blog (“a problem that isn't a problem, a solution that no-one in their right mind would invent”) catalogues some...

Smartphones equipped with GPS and mobile internet access to services like Google Maps certainly make life easier when it comes to navigating around new...

The flying car has been ‘just around the corner’ for almost as long as the non-flying version, but the skies are still curiously free...

Smartphones may be great for browsing the web when there’s a speedy 3G connection, but they don’t fare so well when all that’s available...

It’s long been suspected that technologically savvy burglars are using social networks to identify empty homes and now a recent report seems to support...

The iPhone 4S may have seen record sales since its launch a couple of weeks ago, but some new owners are having a few...

Maintaining a drinkable water supply isn’t much of a problem if you only ever pitch up at well-maintained campsites and/or carry a supply in the...

If wandering around a windswept bit of British countryside in the middle of autumn sounds like something you’d like to do, then the National...

3G coverage tends to be rather spotty out in the sticks, which makes getting online with a USB 3G modem a bit of a...

Out of focus photos will soon be a thing of the past, judging by two new digital camera technologies unveiled last week.

If you’ve seen a car driving around with Google logo and a camera poking from the roof, the chances are that it’s being used...

With fuel prices rocketing, it’s no surprise that more people are prepared to risk using cheap red diesel. Intended for agricultural and building use,...